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Top 25 Angel investors based in San Francisco, United States
RevenueBase identified 192 angel investors headquartered in San Francisco, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 36,048 professional contacts across them, including 991 with verified work emails. San Francisco is the largest hub.
This list covers angel investors headquartered in San Francisco, United States, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 19, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest angel investors based in San Francisco, United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3,283 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Y Combinator is the leading startup accelerator for entrepreneurs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 711 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Hustle Fund is a venture capital firm investing in hilariously-early pre-seed founders.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 441 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “AngelList builds the infrastructure where capital, creativity, and hard work come together to accelerate the rate of innovation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 258 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our mission is to help more people start better startups.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 247 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “NextGen Venture Partners works with over 1,800 Venture Partners to invest $1 million in seed stage companies and $2 million to $10 million in companies with more than $10 million…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 144 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are a fund of 500+ Y Combinator alumni working together to invest in top Y Combinator startups.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 136 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Contrary is a talent and research-driven investment firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 101 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “First Round Capital matches seasoned startup leaders with early-stage operators in a unique mentorship community.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 97 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Band of Angels is Silicon Valley's oldest seed funding organization.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 87 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “NFX is a venture firm exclusively focused on pre-seed & seed stage startups.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 80 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded by Jason Calacanis.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 73 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Operator Collective is a venture fund and dream team community of operator LPs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 69 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “CRV is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage tech startups.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 68 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “https://susaventures.com/” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 58 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our mission is to help more people start better startups.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 55 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Village Global, early-stage capital is just the beginning.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 54 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Afore Capital is a Pre-Seed VC with $300 million in AUM co-founded by Anamitra Banerji & Gaurav Jain.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 53 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Soma Capital is a fund built by founders for founders, focused on software.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 47 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Crosslink, founded in 1989, is a premier early-stage venture capital firm with over $4.2B in assets.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 42 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Garuda Ventures is a pre-seed and seed-focused firm run by operators-turned-investors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 40 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are Spark Capital, investors in products we love by creators we admire, including Affirm, Anthropic, Carta, Cruise, Discord, Oculus, Plaid, Postmates, Slack, Twitter, and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 39 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Veteran Fund is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in high-growth technology startups led by exceptional founders from the military community.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 32 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Expa is where the best startups find support and funding to scale.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 32 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We set the standard in seed stage venture capital, backing founders with grit, audacity, and a spark of rebellion.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 30 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “For more than 20 years, Uncork has focused on one stage: seed.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: angel investors. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names angel investors.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of angel investors, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name angel investors. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Angel investors based in San Francisco, United States at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured across the whole United States list rather than for San Francisco, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for San Francisco, over 192 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among angel investors, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in San Francisco, United States whose own description of what they do matches “angel investors”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names angel investors), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among angel investors, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside San Francisco are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 991 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 19, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Angel investors by metro in the United States
- Angel investors in San Francisco192
- Angel investors in New York180
- Angel investors in Los Angeles64
- Angel investors in Palo Alto51
- Angel investors in Chicago50
- Angel investors in Austin44
- Angel investors in Boston41
- Angel investors in Menlo Park33
- Angel investors in Miami28
- Angel investors in Seattle28
- Angel investors in Houston26
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names angel investors, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many angel investors are there based in San Francisco, United States?
RevenueBase identified 192 angel investors headquartered in San Francisco, United States as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Y Combinator, headquartered in San Francisco, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most angel investors?
San Francisco leads with 192 headquartered companies, followed by New York (180) and Los Angeles (64).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 991 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 192 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 19, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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